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The use of Doppler radar to predict cloud-to-ground lightning
| dc.creator | Aclin, Keith Andrew | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-07T22:39:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-06-07T22:39:23Z | |
| dc.date.created | 1995 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1995 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1995-THESIS-A35 | |
| dc.description | Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to digital@library.tamu.edu, referencing the URI of the item. | en |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical references. | en |
| dc.description | Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | If the National Weather Service could forecast the occurrences of cloud-toground lightning strikes, it would benefit the authorities that are served by the WSR-88Ds. In this thesis I will examine the WSR-88D level 11 archive data from Houston, Texas during the spring of 1993 for squall line activity. These data will then be combined with the cloud-to-ground lightning that occurred within the six minutes of the scan time. Three sets of linear correlations will be generated. The first is the correlation of flashes to the dBZ values present during each scan, the second is the correlation of flashes to the dBZ gradients occurring for the scan, and finally the flashes to radial velocity gradient will be correlated. The correlations were always below an average magnitude of 0.300 for all storms studied. This says that the lightning that is occurring for spring Texas squall lines is highly variable in relation to the three factors studied. This supports other research that has been done that suggested that this may be true. | en |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Texas A&M University | |
| dc.rights | This thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries in 2008. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use. | en |
| dc.subject | meteorology. | en |
| dc.subject | Major meteorology. | en |
| dc.title | The use of Doppler radar to predict cloud-to-ground lightning | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | meteorology | en |
| thesis.degree.name | M.S. | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en |
| dc.type.genre | thesis | en |
| dc.type.material | text | en |
| dc.format.digitalOrigin | reformatted digital | en |
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